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“All Marketplace sellers must follow our selling guidelines and those who don’t will be subject to action including potential removal of their account.

“The product in question is no longer available.”

Trading standards found the product was labelled as not being suitable for children aged up to three years old but it did not include a CE kite mark to show it complied with the UK’s safety requirements for toys.

It was also not clear who the manufacturer or importer was.

A Trading Standards spokesman said: “The lack of these details indicated that a proper safety assessment of the toy may not have been made and makes tracing and removal of the product from sale slower and more difficult.”

The team emphasised it was just this specific product that had been removed and not all magnetic putties.